Giornata Azzurra 2008 – pictures (part 4) – (first) arrivals and departures
Here are the pictures that Giovanni Maduli took on May 22 during the first wave of arrivals to the Giornata Azzurra and on May 26 during the departures. Noteworthy, the interesting picture of the ASK21...
View ArticleInternational Fighter 2008
On Nov. 5 and 6, the Istituto di Scienze Militari Aeronautiche (ISMA), Italian Air Force Institute of Military Aeronautical Sciences in Florence, as part of the celebrations for the 70th anniversary of...
View ArticleTishreen War Panorama Museum, Damascus, Syria
Recently I had the opportunity to visit Damascus, in Syria, one of the most wonderful and interesting towns of the Middle East. Damascus is an ancient town (for some historical sources, it is the...
View ArticleSyrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF) in combat
As I explained in a previous post, during my travel in Syria in November 2008, I had the opportunity to visit an interesting museum: the “Tishreen War Panorama Museum”, in Damascus. The Museum was...
View ArticleFighter generations comparison chart
The appearance of the new J-20 (unofficially dubbed “Black Eagle”) raised many questions about the Chinese stealth fighter. Some experts think it will be more capable than the F-22 while others (and...
View ArticlePicture taken near Benghazi raises question: is the Libyan No-Fly Zone active?
Thanks to a post on the ACIG.org forum, I found an article published on the Detroit Free Press titled “Obama acting lawfully on Libya, adviser says” that shows an extremely interesting picture of three...
View ArticleFree Libya's new airport: a mountain highway
Few days ago I published an article after seeing a picture that showed two single seat Mig-21bis and one double seat Mig-21UM flying over Benina airbase at the end of June. The image not only showed...
View Article[Updated] Video: Syrian Air Ilyushin 76 unloading "goods" at Hamah airbase....
Update Mar. 8 19.30 GMT Recorded on Mar. 2, 2012, the following video shows a Syrian Air Il-76 unloading vehicles and weapons (according to the Youtube title), at Hamah airbase, in western Syria....
View ArticleLatest updates from Syria: tank shelling on Homs and new video from Hamah...
After publishing the Special feature: all the weapons used by the Syrian regime on Homs, Bjørn Holst Jespersen, a contributor of The Aviationist, has continued to analyse the footage of the Syrian...
View ArticleFirst images of Mig-21s in Free Libya Air Force markings
Update Apr. 21, 2012 10.15 GMT The following Reuters images, taken on the runway at Tammahint, 15 km (9 miles) from the southern Libyan city of Sabha, on Apr. 3, 2012, are the first ones showing Libyan...
View Article482 such planes have crashed in 30 years. There is someone risking a lot more...
As already explained in a previous post, there’s a very small number of U.S. combat pilots who have asked not to fly the F-22 Raptor fighter jets, or to be reassigned to other units, because of the...
View ArticleSyria refuses its Mig-21 back unless the pilot comes with it
Jordanian news website Ammonnews, has reported that “Syria has informed Jordan that it either returns the Mig-21 fighter jet and the pilot, or doesn’t want the “abducted” plane, it would stay in...
View ArticleRenascent Libyan Air Force strikes smuggler camps near the border with Chad...
According to the Libyan Herald, on Dec. 18, Libyan airforce jets hit a camp possibly used by suspected smugglers located close to the border with Chad and Sudan, not far from Kufra. The strike took...
View ArticleAssad regime has turned combat planes into WMD-armed drones
According to Israel Hayom daily, the Mig-21 fighter jet flown by a defecting Syrian pilot to Jordan last June was found to have been modified by the Syrian Arab Air Force to carry weapon of mass...
View ArticleStunning MiG-21 Highway Operations in the Polish equivalent of Top Gun
Regarding the last post about the Korean MiG-21s’ highway operations here’s another interesting thing. It is a fragment of a Polish movie Na Niebie i Na Ziemii (In the Sky & On the Ground) which is...
View ArticleOperation Bolo: how U.S. F-4C Phantoms disguised as F-105 bombers set a trap...
The famous mission planned to lure North Vietnamese MiGs into air-to-air combat.During the last months of 1966 the North Vietnamese MiG-21s from Phuc Yen airfield claimed several victories against the...
View ArticleSurreal aerial footage of old Soviet warbirds in the east of Germany (filmed...
Extremely cool footage of some old Soviet combat planes in a Cold War atmosphere.Here’s a really interesting footage filmed by a quadcopter drone with some surreal close ups of MiG-15, MiG-17, MiG-21,...
View ArticleHow to survive in a dogfight, alone against six MiGs: the lesson learned from...
An incredible air-to-air engagement, where one U.S. pilot alone survived to six North Vietnamese MiGs.A true milestone in the progress of naval aviation, the Vought F-8 has been one of the few...
View ArticleNorth Korea hosts first air show ever
As U.S. B-1Bs fly south of the DMZ, the rather geriatric North Korean aircraft take part in the nation’s first-ever airshow in Wonsan. Last weekend North Korea hosted its first-ever air show at the...
View ArticleThe Indian Air Force Claims A MiG-21 Bison Managed To Shoot Down A Pakistan...
According to the IAF, the MiG-21 pilot who was captured yesterday took out a PAF F-16 before being shot down. Let’s start with a disclaimer: in the last couple of days there have been a [...] The post...
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